PM Modi and Rajya Sabha members bid farewell to Vice President Hamid Ansari
Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined Rajya Sabha members in the farewell ceremony to convey his best wishes to the outgoing vice president.
Prime Minister Modi said that Hamid Ansari’s family has an illustrious history of over 100 years in public life.
The Prime Minister said that the Vice President had been a career diplomat, and he had benefited from the Vice President’s insights on diplomatic issues on several occasions.
Hamid Ansari, 80, whose second term as the vice president ends on Thursday, said that he had flagged the issue of 'intolerance' with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet members, reported NDTV.
Ansari also said that the questioning of citizens over their love for India as a "disturbing thought", according to media reports.
Media reports quoted the Vice President Ansari (as per his interview on Rajya Sabha TV) as saying that incidents of lynching and 'ghar wapsi' and alleged killings of rationalists is a "breakdown of Indian values, breakdown of the ability of the authorities at different levels in different places to be able to enforce what should be normal law enforcing work and over all the very fact that Indianness of any citizen being questioned is a disturbing thought."
Veteran BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu will take over as Vice President of India after Ansari demits office on Thursday.
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